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Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment 4E, Vol. 2

Volume 2 in the fourth edition of Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment series provides an overview of the signs and effects of sexual abuse and psychological maltreatment toward children. The clinical text includes new and revised content on topics that are critical to the effective assessment and treatment of abused victims.

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Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment
Fourth Edition
Volume 2: Sexual Abuse and Psychological Maltreatment

Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment Fourth Edition, Volume 2: Sexual Abuse and Psychological Maltreatment is a comprehensive resource that will benefit a variety of professionals in their ongoing efforts to identify and prevent sexual abuse and psychological maltreatment in children. The clinical portion of this text is accompanied by a photographic atlas in the back of the book, which includes 350 high-quality images and case histories.

These photographs document instances of sexual abuse and detail the equipment used by professionals for documentation, serving to help readers identify and treat the various forms of abuse they may encounter in the field. Child Maltreatment takes a multidisciplinary focus to support collaboration among health care, law enforcement, social work, child protection, and court-related professionals.

Features & Benefits:

  • Over 300 high-quality images
  • Updated to include the most contemporary research
  • Ideal for multidisciplinary use
Product Details:

Hard-cover
456 pages, 350 images, 36 contributors

Audience:

Law Enforcement, Attorneys, Judges, Physicians, ER Personnel, Pediatricians, EMTs, Nurses, Medical Examiners, Coroners, Clinical Researchers, Social Service Personnel, Mental Health Professionals, Domestic Violence Experts, Substance Abuse Experts, Child Advocates, Child Abuse Prevention Professionals, Child Protective Services Members, Educators

Publication date:

March  2014

ISBN-13:

978-1-936590-28-5 (Print)
978-1-936590-31-5 (eBook)

Table of Contents

1. Sexual Abuse: Overview
2. Sexual Abuse: Issues Related to Interviewing Children
3. Sexual Abuse: The Medical Examination
4. Sexually Transmitted Infections
5. Sexual Behaviors in Children
6. Therapy Approaches for Sexually Abused Children
7. Positive and Negative Findings and What They Mean
8. Developmental Aspects of the Young Child
9. Understanding Resilience
10. Lifelong Effects of Child Maltreatment
11. Psychological Maltreatment
12. The Psychopathology of Child Maltreatment
13. Fabricated and Induced Illness by Carers
14. Psychological Assessment and Treatment Approaches
15. Role of the School
16. Sexual Abuse Atlas
17. Equipment for the Documentation of Sexual Abuse Atlas

David L. Chadwick †, MD

David Chadwick was the Director Emeritus of the Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Rady Children’s Hospital – San Diego. He engaged in clinical work with abused children starting in 1960. In 1961, along with C. Henry Kempe, Leon Eisenberg, and others, he attended a meeting at the Children’s Bureau in Washington drafting the first model child abuse reporting law. He created the Center for Child Protection at Children’s Hospital in San Diego – one of the first in the country – in 1976 and became its director in 1985. It was later renamed the Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Rady Children’s Hospital – San Diego. He also helped to found the San Diego Community Child Abuse Coordinating Council and was instrumental in developing a Committee on Child Abuse in the American Academy of Pediatrics. He was an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public Health at San Diego State University, where he engaged in research on the epidemiology of physical abuse. Dr. Chadwick passed away in January 2020.

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Angelo P. Giardino, MD, PhD

Angelo Giardino is the medical director of Texas Children’s Health Plan, a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, and an attending physician for the Texas Children’s Hospital’s forensic pediatrics service at the Children’s Assessment Center in Houston, Texas. Angelo Giardino completed his residency and fellowship training in pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Immediately after his fellowship training, Angelo Giardino became the assistant, and then the associate, medical director at Health Partners of Philadelphia, where he had primary responsibility for utilization management, intensive case management, and health care data analysis. He also shared responsibility for the plan’s quality improvement program. Additionally, he began the Child Abuse and Neglect Team for Children with Special Health Care Needs, which was funded by a three-year grant from a local philanthropy. In 1998, he was appointed associate chair of clinical operations in the Department of Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and in June of 1999 he was asked to chair the CHOP Quality Committee. These accomplishments are only a few of his career.

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Randell Alexander, MD, PhD

Randell Alexander is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Florida and the Morehouse School of Medicine. He currently serves as chief of the Division of Child Protection and Forensic Pediatrics and interim chief of the Division of Developmental Pediatrics at the University of Florida-Jacksonville. In addition, he is the statewide medical director of child protections teams for the Department of Health’s Children’s Medical Services and is part of the International Advisory Board for the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome. He has also served as vice chair of the US Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect, on the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the boards of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and Prevent Child Abuse America. Randell Alexander has served on state child death review committees in Iowa, Georgia, and Florida, and two regional child death review committees. He is an active researcher, lectures widely, and testifies frequently in major child abuse cases throughout the country.

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Jonathan D. Thackeray, MD, FAAP

Jonathan Thackeray is Clinical Director of The Center for Family Safety and Healing at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. In addition to hospital medicine, he is a member of the faculty of The Center and was appointed as Clinical Director of the Child Assessment Center in 2007. He also serves as the Director of the Step 2 Clinical Skills Program at the College of Medicine. He is active in the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Section on Child Abuse and Neglect and serves as editor of the section’s newsletter. He recently completed a two-year term as president of the Ohio Chapter of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children and is a Scholar Member of the Ray E. Helfer Society and a member of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association. His professional interests include intimate partner violence and resident education. He is board certified in general pediatrics and internal medicine.

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Debra Esernio-Jenssen, MD

Debra Esernio-Jenssen is currently working at Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital in the field of Child Protective Medicine. She is also currently the Medical Director of the John Van Brakle Child Advocacy Center. In 2009 she was certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Child Abuse Pediatrics. From 1998 to April 2010, she was the Director of the Child Protection Center at Schneider Children’s Hospital and the Chair of the Child Protection Consultation Team at Long Island Jewish Hospital in New Hyde Park, New York. She graduated from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in 1982 and completed her pediatric residency at North Shore University in Manhasset, NY where she was selected to be Chief Resident in Pediatrics in 1985. In 2007, she was invited to join the Ray Helfer Society. She is a member of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children and has a special interest in prevention. Debra has also produced a domestic violence and abusive head trauma public service announcement that has been shown on the big screen before every University of Florida home football game. Debra is recognized both nationally and internationally for her work in child abuse and child abuse prevention.

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Volume 2 of the 4th edition of Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment is a comprehensive, evidence based text that is a critical reference for healthcare professionals who provide care for children and families. The array of expert contributors has crafted a publication that provides essential knowledge of the many facets of child maltreatment and includes contemporary references, images and case studies. I would recommend this volume of Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment as a ‘must have’ resource for professionals committed to curbing the epidemic of child maltreatment.

Valerie Sievers, MSN, RN, CNS, CEN, SANE-A, SANE-P
Forensic Clinical Nurse Specialist
Coordinator, Forensic Nursing & Correctional Healthcare
University of Colorado-Colorado Springs
Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Colorado Springs, Colorado

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